Monday, August 6, 2012

Competition results

As promised, we have created a little video - actually two of them - of the best performance(s) in the competition.

The feature of the game to show re-plays of other players driving in the game challenges is a unfortunately not as widely used as we had hoped. Our estimates are that less than 20% of customers who have purchased the game took the time to register on the official website, so they are not only unable to take part in the competitions, but also are not even able to visually check out the best results and learn something from them. We are thinking of changing this feature of the game when we update it again, so that even people playing the unregistered or unactivated game in demo mode can see those recordings. We thought about whether to include this feature for every player during the initial game's release, but we feared that the initial piracy spike experienced by any game would cause so much traffic to our results database that we would be effectively suffering from a DDoS-like problem.

Seeing how close the results were, we are ready to give a free copy of ETS2 not just to the best 3 participants of the competition, but to include the first FOUR places :-).

So again congratulations to Rou10, Astoria711, easynote, and nemesis99 - you are going to get an e-mail from us later today (or early tomorrow at the latest) officially confirming your prize.

I hear there planning to utilise unused fan herders on motherboards, so you can rig up a 120mm case fan on your desktop, so when you open the window when moving the fan will start to blow on your face in proportion to forward speed and how open the window is.

But then it could just be something I made up to highlight how pointless “opening” a window would be given you can already put your virtual head outside to look backwards! so -1 from me

It's a little detail that adds to the immersion, simply. No harm in it, but it is probably easier said than done as the truck model would need to be made with this in mind (or modified to allow it). Then coding so the sound can get louder from outside, of course. Not impossible but a bit of extra work -- in the end possibly pointless apart from immersion, as I said. Nothing against it from me, but it is low priority.

I can open windows in my Bus in OMSI Bus Simulator.But I actualy never ever doing it. I think its waist of time to implant that. Then I would rather could swith on or off my cabin light. U see, we all what this and that. It's not easy today.

I wouldn't mind that feature, plus they already have most of what they need for it, when you put your head outside the sound goes up already, so just a matter of doing that incrementally as THE or A glass shader is modifed on the window instead of the texture they're probably currently using for it. Probably takes a whole weekend to implement for one guy...mainly because of the shader bit.

I had to give Leave The Port a shot too.. Took me 4:50,13 and I also managed to hit pretty much everything there was to hit in the process. Especially the owner of the Volvo XC90 will be quite unpleased, haha! Fortunately there is no replay available.

Please don't leave the thunderstorms like they were in Scania Truck Driving Simulator. In real life, thunder isn't like that. After lightning, the rumble takes a long time to reach the ears of the player. In STDS, you hear it instantly.The rumble should also last longer.

The delay between lightning and rumbling depends on how far away the actual storm is. Maybe the game assumes it's always directly overhead.

But I think the whole weather cycle should change a bit slower because I doubt the game is supposed to take place in the Scottish highlands. If I play, say couple of hours I've experienced pretty much every possible weather scenario at least seven times. Although at one occasion the rain lasted almost an hour and I already thought the game had gone crazy.

I think that the world of STDS is from Södertälje, Sweden. Many Scanias are made there and SCS team visited the city months ago. I looked from Google Maps for Scania factory and found also Scania Democentre. Try satellite view on southern Södertälje and you can find it! :)

Oh, and about the weather; Rain seems to affect my fps pretty much, but the new rain effect looks very good. Anoyone else noticed water "pools" on some streets after rain? I think that the reason to change weather fast is realism. Why realism? Because it would take too much time to make weather between sunny and rainy weather look realistic. I mean that team has to do what they can in limited time. They do what is most important and they can adjust the weather more if they have time.

I hope that in ETS2 will be long highways, and take real time to reach the towns . I don't mind driving hours , but longest destination is half hr, thats funny.. put 2 more gigabite in the game , don't be shy.. :P

and please put build-in WEB(streaming) radios to the game, I listening the same cd-s in my car, I don't want those in the game too.. I would like to listen NEWS , english if possible, while driving. I can not manually add web radios, coz not playing. Thanks. PS: In Scania there should be other types of trucks AI driving, not only scania does exist. Even if its their game. Hugz.

Thanks.. Good thing I was remembering from the 18 wheels of steel series how to add songs (have to convert them to OGG format and 128 kb/s maximum rate) coz otherwise this info not discoverable for a newbie. I will try later add web radio. Cheers.

Congrats to winners and runners-up, a free copy of ETS2 after a weekend of semi stress free time-trials can never be a bad thing.

As for the best times replay feature, wouldn’t a preview be better for the unactivated/demo version, and maybe a reminder for unregistered ?Surly adding a full features like that would attract hackers & crackers alike – if there’s enough demand that is.

And yet you're very nice I would add one more years for the extension of the map of Scania truck simulator such as these are finished we told them we even then I'm willing to take their time but there are limits to the stupidity here is shit

Practise tend to do this. I know when I first started playing and tested the early dangerous drives it took many minutes and enough collisions to give zero points. Now I swoop through them at fairly high speed and with no collisions, as if it was the obvious and easy thing to do.

Same with simply reversing the trailer, the more you do it the more natural it becomes. Soon it is nothing you even really think about. (c:

Beside, with a wheel/controller you get no "wobbly wheel" effect, so if you know where you want to place the truck you just, well, do it.

I think that ETS2 mention the possibility of getting off the publishing vehicle was one of the characteristics that would have the game. Until the video provided by SCS no softwere or ETS2 demonstrated.

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